Wise Madness
Gord’s Gold 1: Welcome My Gentle Listeners to the Gord’s Gold Halloween show, dedicated to ghoulies and ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night. The special opening music was a selection from Tchaikovsky’s Sérénade mélancolique, played by the great thereminist, Clara Rockmore. She was the aunt of my late friend, […]
Gord’s Gold 1: Welcome My Gentle Listeners. My friend Joy is writing her thesis and posted this on Facebook. This is the song I need right now. I am listening to Stand in the River: by Moira Smiley and Voco on repeat while writing writing writing. As the song is on my songs to play […]
Show originally streamed on Folk Music Notebook on October 16, 2025 Gord’s Gold 1:Welcome My Gentle Listeners to Gord’s Gold. Most people know Steve Martin as a comedian, but that’s not how I first saw him, sitting in with the Nitty Ditty Dirt Band on some early 70s TV show. It turns out I had […]
Gord’s Gold 1: Welcome My Gentle Listeners. Don’t ever let anyone get away with saying that there’s no good music being made or how much better things used to be. On today’s show four of the artists are new to me. This first set has two such artists followed by classics that their song reminds […]
Gord’s Gold 1: Welcome my Gentle Listener. There’s no artist that I’m more excited about that Muireann Bradley. You’ve heard of an actor who you’d pay to read the phone book? That’s how I feel about Muireann, I’ll even play her singing a Jackson Browne song, These Days. My dislike of Jackson Brown sometimes makes […]
Pro tip, when I have to say something I’m not comfortable with pronouncing, I will write it out phonetically. Would you think of pronouncing Gothard as GAW-third? I wrote them to learn the right way. Same deal with Kelly Mack. The correct way of spelling the names are on the playlist for each set. As […]
I am trying something new, turning Gord’s Gold into blog posts. The way it will work is what you see in bold are what I would have said on the show I I didn’t have time pressure. In between are the songs in the set following the bold. At the end I’ll embed the show […]
Welcome My Gentle Readers, I’m going to try blogging again. It will be different now. I’m not going to try and blog every day and I’m going to mainly blog about music. Think of it as Wise Madness Presents Gord’s Gold. Some of you might know me from Gord’s Gold, to those people, Welcome My […]
Every year on July 4 I read the Declaration of Independence. It’s never the same twice, for I am not the same, because the world is not the same. As Saturday is No Kings Day I decided to do my reading today. Here you can read the text of America’s founding document and see what […]
I have found a reason to write; it’s better than ranting to myself. My original motivation for blogging was making my friend happy, that’s always a good motivation. As soon as I started writing I discovered that it made me happy and that’s still a good reason. There are ideas that run around my head […]
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